CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



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N80 - included hind sight. If you are you so medically smart, why did you not go to Wuhan and do something about the pandemic.
I agree that this is all effecting the world economy badly. And China’s. I can’t believe that you put money over lives.

OP. Kyron Audio are producing medical masks, the clear full face type. As there is no motor racing, one team, Erebus Motor sport put their team into building ventilators. I am way into the risk age to assist the fight against Covid-19 directly. But we have committed financially what we can.
MC, Geof3,
It’s so easy to pass unproductive commentary after the event. How many have died in the US? UK? EU? China?
Would you have said the same if you and your like walked around without restrictions in place and caught Covid-19. Would you have complained that the Government did nothing? How many lived have the restrictions saved?
Your comments are pathetic.
So I have sat for 2 hours to read this thread and found that some posters who I regarded as nuisances, have more sense than those I thought might have better sense.
I am as horrified as most reading the COVID statistics in the US and is going to be around for some time. I am as as concerned for the rest of the globe regarding the virus.
Interestingly Greenland has suffered the least, but their locale helps.
Most of all I wish my best to everyone and stay healthy.

( @glupson How do you approach 5000 posts within 2 years and have have 0 threads started? Just curious...  😜
@geoffkait Granted, but I was referring to the permanently settled continents/countries.
Either way, I think we agree that this is not a good situation. I believe that this has a long way to go. COVIT-19 2 or 3 waves or outbreaks to come.
Not being US, am I immune to your Presidents gaffs and goofs? He after all is a teddy bear with a non-biological brain. (I saw this in a political cartoon).🤣
His tweets are lame and not researched. He needs a tweet writer!
What happened to Ted Nugent? And the Amboy Dukes? I have 5-6 lps of his then nothing. Then Richie Blackmore or Adrian Gurvitz. Not so prolific anymore.

@phd JFK made a speech prior to his death on this problem and warned us of the dier consequences that could occur if it was allowed to go unchecked.
dier is actually spelt dire. Thank goodness it’s only phd, not PhD. 🇦🇺